KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 12): US-based Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, has opened its largest global office outside of its Los Angeles headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to tap into the growing local games market.

Xsolla president Chris Hewish said Malaysia is Asia’s third-largest gaming market.

“Overall, the global video game market is estimated at over US$200 billion this year, and Malaysia is nearing US$800 million.

“It is very important for us to be somewhere where a strong gaming ecosystem exists, where developers and companies are growing. Other big gaming companies have also moved in recently to set up offices in Malaysia,” he told reporters at the opening of Xsolla’s new office at The Vertical Corporate Towers in Bangsar here on Thursday.

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) chief executive officer Mahadhir Aziz said MDEC welcomed Xsolla’s entry into Malaysia, and its confidence in the country's digital content ecosystem is a glowing endorsement of the country’s capabilities and capacities.

“We will continue to strive to facilitate further expansion and growth of key partners in utilising the nation as a hub to land and expand to the wider Asean region.

“With the new national strategic initiative, Malaysia Digital, in place, we are confident that Malaysia will continue to be the digital hub of choice,” he said in a statement released by Xsolla.

Meanwhile, Xsolla said that the expansion allowed the company to offer its growing list of innovative products to even more gaming companies worldwide.

“Xsolla provides industry-leading solutions helping mobile, personal computer, and web-based video game developers to expand their audiences and monetise their games better.

“The expansion into Kuala Lumpur is in line with the growing number of gamers and mobile game companies in Asia, enabling Xsolla to provide products that align with market needs and help our partners engage directly with consumers,” it said.

The company helps video game developers to fund, launch, market, monetise, and sell their games in over 200 countries worldwide.

“We already provide developers with access to new gamers by enabling transactions in more than 130 currencies and in over 20 languages,” it added.

habis la gameka

Malaysia has cheaper labor cost to produce the game, just look at lemonsky and passion republic in the past receive job from the game company, i'm not surprise they will set up office to hire staff directly here

Wah investment to Msia...
Bagus kerajaan PH!!

Yes, at least come to Msia then go to SG...... kerajaan PH bagus...

pay to win and games as a service for ya sheeps

Cheap labour, over here the "crunch time" is legal, workers may subject to long hours of work, with poor working environment.
It will lead to bad quality games, look at Warcraft 3 remastered.

Must be NFT and gacha scammer company.

I wanna work that.. As support staff..

Only US games.

Japanese still make alot good game without P2W or GaS style. Elden Ring is one example.

can beat genting as malaysia's top gaming company?

MDEC has to be better in luring those gaming company invest here, we got talent and government able to give them tax free period for 5 or 10 years.

In the past they set up company at Singapore, Singapore sub out partial job to Malaysia company, i guess with the strong SGD a lot of them will not hesitate to shift entire operation here.

lmao for gud studio like fromsoft u oso have activision tier shitters like konami and square enix

android/iphone game.

Glassdoor all complain about the CEO topkek

https://gameworldobserver.com/2021/08/04/xs...ses-controversy

Sounds like Elon lel

This post has been edited by derebanz: Jan 13 2023, 10:18 AM

Kenny Lum, the Gameka CEO apa macam?

Konami don't make game anymore

Square Enix, ok ok la. Even if the games they make aren't good, most of their games are still single player games.

Of coz. Cause crunch time is normal here.

malaysia kuli terbaik, everyone treat Malaysia as kuli, my company's Malaysia branch also largest branch outside Germany HQ, hell maybe even bigger than HQ, all projects, hiring etc done in Malaysia, train TW newbies also at Malaysia. SG, Shanghai, TW, all just customer support

This post has been edited by MKCL: Jan 13 2023, 10:28 AM

Thank you, Hannah Yeoh!

yeah come come the more the merrier... create jobs here locally.... good investment... PH gomen at least got do work... Kerajaan bagus tak gagal...

salah orang la... she is menteri sukan..
should thank you Rafizi menteri economy..

We really going to become scammer land haiya

Degree in gender studies can apply